Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lightvision Inc. currently has 4 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. Each of these 4 actions is assigned to a different person, resulting in 4 distinct examiners for the portfolio. This distribution is also reflected at the administrative level, with the actions spread across 4 distinct art units. Such a high degree of fragmentation for a small portfolio means that each pending matter is being treated as a completely separate technical and administrative entity within the patent office, requiring independent prosecution strategies for each.
The busiest examiner is MIKELS, MATTHEW, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there are 4 distinct examiners for 4 pending actions, the workload is evenly split, and no single examiner dominates the prosecution. The use of 4 distinct art units for only 4 actions indicates that each pending matter is being treated as a separate technical category within the communications field. Practitioners must be prepared to develop 4 entirely independent prosecution strategies, as the lack of overlap between the 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units means that progress in one case is unlikely to provide any direct leverage or precedent for the other pending actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (25%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| MIKELS, MATTHEW | 1 | 81.2% | +20.1% |
| HILMANTEL, ADAM J | 1 | 40.4% | +28.8% |
| LIEW, ALEX KOK SOON | 1 | 87.7% | +7.2% |
| BALI, VIKKRAM | 1 | 81.4% | +12.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18612883 | CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM WITH EASY SPACE GROUP INFERENCE AND METHOD OF RECOMMENDING ZONE AXIS IN THE SAME | LIEW, ALEX KOK SOON | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18254139 | MULTIPLE SENSOR HANDOVER SYSTEM FOR TRACKING MOVING OBJECT AND METHOD OF PROVIDING PARKING SERVICE IN THE SAME | BALI, VIKKRAM | 33d |
| 19306559 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING FORGERY OR ALTERATION OF IDENTIFICATION CARDS | MIKELS, MATTHEW | — |
| 19213092 | METHOD OF PROVIDING PARKING SYSTEM USING QR CODE AND PROXY PAYMENT | HILMANTEL, ADAM J | — |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18254139 | MULTIPLE SENSOR HANDOVER SYSTEM FOR TRACKING MOVING OBJECT AND METHOD OF PROVIDING PARKING SERVICE IN THE SAME | BALI, VIKKRAM | 33d |
| 19306559 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING FORGERY OR ALTERATION OF IDENTIFICATION CARDS | MIKELS, MATTHEW | — |
| 19213092 | METHOD OF PROVIDING PARKING SYSTEM USING QR CODE AND PROXY PAYMENT | HILMANTEL, ADAM J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2876 | 1 |
| 3691 | 1 |
| 2674 | 1 |
| 2663 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19306559 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING FORGERY OR ALTERATION OF IDENTIFICATION CARDS | MIKELS, MATTHEW | 2876 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2025 |
| 19213092 | METHOD OF PROVIDING PARKING SYSTEM USING QR CODE AND PROXY PAYMENT | HILMANTEL, ADAM J | 3691 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 20, 2025 |
| 18612883 | CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM WITH EASY SPACE GROUP INFERENCE AND METHOD OF RECOMMENDING ZONE AXIS IN THE SAME | LIEW, ALEX KOK SOON | 2674 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
| 18254139 | MULTIPLE SENSOR HANDOVER SYSTEM FOR TRACKING MOVING OBJECT AND METHOD OF PROVIDING PARKING SERVICE IN THE SAME | BALI, VIKKRAM | 2663 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | May 23, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialLightvision Inc. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Matthew Mikels has the most, with 1 of Lightvision Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
